If Sony came out with a true HD revision of the Playstation 2 would you buy it?

[PCXL-Fan]

Although economically and businesswise it doesn't make much sense, if Sony came out with an extremely powerful PS2 capable of outputting all ps1 and 2 games in true 1080p HD with trilinear texture filtering through your HDTV OR Computer Monitor, had compatability with standard flash drives(usb memsticks)/usb external hdds and a save anywhere feature like with Savestates would you buy it and how much would you pay for it?

Sorry Ref, Zerofrog, pscx2 team and plugin authors, I guess you'd have to find a new hobby... Wii emulation?

(I just added the last poll option in there for fun to see if people chose it )

[Samor]

that'd be worth about $150 dollars... if I had a hdtv.

[PCXL-Fan]

lets say it had a dvi and vga port and was capable of displaying those games on the computer monitors too.

[skoreanime]

Maybe...but most games on the PS2 aren't developed with HD in mind, so what's the point ? Depends on the price I suppose and the timing. If my PS2 kicks the bucket, then yeah, probably. My PS3 is the 80GB model, so it has a issues with a lot of games .

[CKemu]

Out of a job, pfffk....I run PCSX2 through GSdx at:

4096 * 2304 - 16:9
4096 * 3072 - 4:3

1080p is puny

[PCXL-Fan]

Originally Posted by skoreanime

Maybe...but most games on the PS2 aren't developed with HD in mind, so what's the point ? Depends on the price I suppose and the timing. If my PS2 kicks the bucket, then yeah, probably. My PS3 is the 80GB model, so it has a issues with a lot of games .

Plus the ps3 just upscales them, it doesn't give you any higher resolution just a stretched image.

[Squall-Leonhart]

Scaling up isn't the same as stretching. stretching causes pixel distortion, and pixelation,
Upscaling is more advanced then that.

[Paratech]

Ok, is it me but why is there no "I already own a PS2" option? Why assume everyone either doesn't have one or is running an emulator? There are millions of PS2 owners, many aren't interested in having it, some like me don't have a huge HDTV to play the games, others, like me, don't see the point it viewing them in HDTV, others may have a PS3 that has enough backwards compatibility to satisfy them, and others may not want to play PS2 games?

[skoreanime]

If their PS2 is anything like mine, it can go anytime. Myself owning a first generation console, it has a hard time reading a lot of games, especially the dual layered ones. I have to orient the console vertically for the games to even start reading And since it looks like Sony's put BC compatibility on the back of their to do list for the PS3...

[Paratech]

Hmm, my PS2 works fine, and why'd I want to pay more than $129 just to have HD when I don't have a HDTV?

Any console can die at any time, XBOX 360 owners can attest to that, but I'd not want a special PS2 when I can just buy a regular slimline.

But for the heck of it, I'll vote...

[skoreanime]

Meh, that's why I voted $150. It's about the same price for a slim model right now. So if I had the choice of picking between a slim and one that does HD, why not ?

[Thanakil]

Originally Posted by Paratech

Ok, is it me but why is there no "I already own a PS2" option? Why assume everyone either doesn't have one or is running an emulator? There are millions of PS2 owners, many aren't interested in having it, some like me don't have a huge HDTV to play the games, others, like me, don't see the point it viewing them in HDTV, others may have a PS3 that has enough backwards compatibility to satisfy them, and others may not want to play PS2 games?

If you already have one, just vote thinking "would you buy a second PS2 to play them in HD", that's all. Some people would buy a second PS2 just for HD too so the vote still counts.

If you don't, then it means you are going for the next best thing, the emulator. So you just vote "no, since we already have a great emulator blablabla".

[Paratech]

Not really, I may just be happy with my PS2. I'm sure of the millions of gamers who own a PS2 there are those who could care less about HD.

In fact the only reason I'll eventually want Playstation 2 emulation is because I'll want a chance to play the games when the Playstation 2 systems are no longer for sale and my Playstation 2 is busted.

I only starting to play Playstation emulation on my PC, I've segregated my Playstation 1 games into a case, but I tend to use ripped images off the hard drive to play them. I'll want to play my Playstation 2 games on my PC down the line, but I may not make images of them as they are so much bigger, but I think I have ~5 years to secide how I'll handle Playstation 2 emulation.

[PCXL-Fan]

Originally Posted by Paratech

Ok, is it me but why is there no "I already own a PS2" option? Why assume everyone either doesn't have one or is running an emulator? There are millions of PS2 owners, many aren't interested in having it, some like me don't have a huge HDTV to play the games, others, like me, don't see the point it viewing them in HDTV, others may have a PS3 that has enough backwards compatibility to satisfy them, and others may not want to play PS2 games?

Originally Posted by Thanakil

If you already have one, just vote thinking "would you buy a second PS2 to play them in HD", that's all. Some people would buy a second PS2 just for HD too so the vote still counts.

If you don't, then it means you are going for the next best thing, the emulator. So you just vote "no, since we already have a great emulator blablabla".

Yes Im posting under the assumtion that you already have a working ps2. What thanakil said is exactly what I'm thinking. Would you buy a second HD ps2? Otherwise how the hell are you emulating or for that matter have an opinion on whether or not a ps2 is worth re-purchasing?

Seeing as many people are pumpling all this money into great ram, good heatsinks, good processors, good motherboards, overclocking and spending time on the emulation forums largely for the purpose of playing pcsx2 then wouldn't buying a second HD ps2 be something of great desire for them?

[Paratech]

That depends on how much they're willing to pay for HD!
Remember, gamers are willing to spend $$$ for a PS3 but don't want to spend $100 to have HD PS2 support.

[skoreanime]

Errr, I would if my PS2 died on me.

[Paratech]

Yes, but would you pay MORE FOR HD? I'm thinking the "normal" PS2 systems will still be available. There will be a glut of them new and used.

I'm just pointing out what many showed me, that PS3 gamers were too cheap to want PS2 support in their systems, and that many PS2 gamers are happy with what they have! Anything over $150 is getting close to buying a next gen system, and I'm sure Sony would want people buying PS3s not expensive versions of PS2s.

[skoreanime]

$150 sounds fine to me. Throw on another $20 for for HD? Sure, why not? Just because you won't doesn't mean others have too.

[Paratech]

I never said that, I just pointed out that most PS3 users weren't willing to shell out $100 to have it with their PS3 games, I think the number of people wanting to spend $150 on PS2 gaming is dropping, otherwise you'd have $500 PS3 systems with full backwards compatibility.

I think a lot of gamers are looking at moving on from the PS2, and that there aren't as many PS2 fans like us left.